When I took Trigonometry in high school, it was all about memorizing a bunch of stuff and I did horribly. When I took it in college, the professor taught us how to derive everything based on the Unit Circle. It just clicked. I ended up doing so well in that class that the professor got me to change my major to mathematics and got me a scholarship too.
It's also easier to stick to a diet working remotely. No more junk food lunches with coworkers, or people bringing in treats. I've lost 80 pounds over the past two years, and I think remote working played a big part in it.
Add 13 years, and I could have written this. I must admit I cringed a bit when the author said 40 was old. I still love what I do, and I have no desire to live the manager life of all day meetings.
My company solved it by giving everybody a flat rate every month. We can use it for internet or getting a better office chair, or whatever we see fit. Seems fair.
I hate to say it, but I am reluctant to read any 'testimony' from nurses or patients about vaccine harm or issues without knowing their political affiliation. If a bunch of Cheeto loving nurses are claiming it, I will weigh that information differently than reports coming from unbiased sources. I honestly think the vaccines are not nearly as good as they should be - but this article is a hot mess of unsubstantiated garbage.
I'm perfectly happy with Apple helping me keep my email address out of the author's hands. If he wants it that badly, it's probably not anything that's in my best interest.
I wish I could go back to this. But, I'm part of an international team now; so my productive mornings are a thing of the past. Now, I'm constantly in meetings with the European teams. Then, the American side wants some of my afternoons as well. I'm losing my mind with this.
Neither the author nor the publication seem credible sources for information on this topic. The author is a Physics professor who was fired for giving all of his students A+ in a course after coming under fire for putting a course description in the catalog to get students to enroll, and then teaching something completely different in the course. (They called it academic squatting)
>But Washington stopped short of offering renters comparable relief on the assumption that those in distress would likely qualify for the $1,200 checks the Treasury began mailing out in April, as well as beefed-up unemployment benefits.
I have to laugh at this because Americans were told a) you're getting a stimulus check and b) you can't be evicted.
I am almost positive that many people used the stimulus check as found money and blew it rather than using it for rent. The mindset being that if they can't be evicted now, they'll cross that bridge when they get to it.
Most of us don't have any choice and have to continue to work - burned out or not. I've found that burnout comes and goes in waves though. It doesn't necessarily take changing jobs to help resolve it. Sometimes, it's just a matter of putting one foot in front of another for a while and just staying afloat until something sparks and work becomes interesting and fun again and not sheer drudgery and anxiety.
We were hit by it over the weekend, and because of our failsafes, our customers didn't notice a thing. Stuff happens. It's our job to prepare for these things as well.
Acceleration has its benefits, but the ideal solution would be to accelerate the educational aspects for the child without accelerating the social side.
On the flip side, you have to challenge them and give them the opportunity to work hard. I think schools get lazy with gifted kids. Gifted kids deserve to be challenged and put to the limits of their abilities the same as non-gifted children, but schools just don't do that. Tracking children by ability in the US has been labeled elitist. Funding often isn't there for enrichment programs. Parents are expected to provide enrichment for these kids outside of school, but it's not always possible either financially or time-wise.
I tend to keep most of my documents in Dropbox or iCloud, and use Alfred to find what I want by typing a word that I think is in the title. Dropbox can search within documents too, and I try to have an organized file structure.
Source code is in a Code directory. I try to keep that directory clean - only stuff I'm actually working on. Everything is in Git and can be pulled down very quickly if I need to spin it up again.
I used to love a document database that was geared for researchers and others who have to catalog a lot of information. It's called DevonThink. I had a license for it from one of the MacHeist bundles, but it was really overkill for my document needs.
It seems to be the mentality lately that nobody wants to fix existing stuff and make it better. They want to launch their own disruptive startup, library, whatever. It's true in job boards, it's true in code libraries and tools as well.
some of this could be helped by intelligent naming of packages. If something is called urllib, name the package urllib because that's what people are going to look for.
What frustrates me is that in the United States, most insurance companies won't pay for hyperbaric oxygen treatment for traumatic brain injuries. My son, 26, was injured in a car accident last November. I would love to be able to get Oxygen therapy for him, but cannot.